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Hello,
I'm coming from an OpenSuse and Fedora Core background, where a lot is autoconfigured. Also, they are becoming increasingly bloated. I have switched to Arch on a testing hard drive in my laptop, soon to put on the main hard drive dual-booting with Windows XP (for my work - unfortunately).
I have managed to get KDE installed and have sound working. I installed the following games for my kids to play (me too!): smc (secret maryo chronicles), supertux, and miniracer. I have no sound at all with any of them. When I run supertux from a shell, I get the following error:
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy
Warning: Couldn't initialize audio device: Couldn't open audio device.
OpenAL Vendor: [kwilliams@DellC840 ~]$
With smc running from the command line, I get this error:
Last known Error : Failed loading DPMSDisable: /usr/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: DPMSDisable
Does anyone kindly have advice for me on how to fix this? It's obviously not critical, but I'd like to know how to fix it when I do my real installation on the non-testing hard drive.
My system:
Dell Latitude C840
Pentium 4M 1.6ghz
1GB RAM
Nvidia Geforece4 MX440 go 64MB
Onboard Intel AC-97 sound
Thanks!
Kenton W.
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Does sound work properly otherwise (music, video, system sounds)?
Are you in "audio" group? If not, run "gpasswd -a your_user_name audio" as root.
Try preceding game command with aoss (eg. aoss supertux).
Make sure you have no other sound sources outputting when starting games.
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Running aoss supertux works. Runnin aoss smc works, but the sound is garbled and crackly. Any ideas?
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Perhaps installing soundmixer from AUR would make some magic.
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17:50:21 ~ $ p -Ss smc[TAB]
smc smc-music
you need smc-music probably too.
also do killall artsd ; killall esd
sound daemons be gone!
I thought anything supported alsa now? (except TeamSpeak)
have you sat up alsa? all is in the wiki...
Last known Error : Failed loading DPMSDisable: /usr/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: DPMSDisable i get too but i can still run the game.
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Ok. I did the killall artsd and everything is working. How do I go about making sure that artsd doesn't get started by KDE?
By the way, I have the smc-music package and copied it to its proper place.
Thanks for the assistance!
-Kenton
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Disable arts in Kcontrol -> Sound and Multimedia -> Sound System. If you want notifications to be played nevertheless, you can set the player to mplayer, aplay or what else in notifications setup window.
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I have disabled the KDE sound system and that seems to do the trick, but I was wondering if there's a different way to achieve the same results without disabling sound system. Any ideas that I can try? There's got to be a way - all the other distros I've tried are able to work without disabling the KDE sound system.
Thanks again for any help.
-Kenton W.
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You're doing yourself a favour by disabling it, really. It causes more problems than it solves; and by using external player to play notification sounds, you don't lose that functionality either.
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